Yeah, a lot of advances in psychology start with refuting one of Freud's ideas, but it's no different than modern (Enlightenment) physics starting with refuting

Yeah, a lot of advances in psychology start with refuting one of Freud's ideas, but it's no different than modern (Enlightenment) physics starting with refuting Aristotle. It doesn't mean Aristotle wasn't a massively influential genius. In fact that Aristotle and Freud are the starting point for what came after them shows how important they were. Freud deserves credit for revolutionizing an entire field, creating something new and coherent. Given the context of his time, he was a genius, like Aristotle was in his time. Also, while most of Freud's details are of course pitifully ridiculous today, the basic insight that the unconscious matters, and that we can see its influence in indirect ways, is still a valid idea today. It's debated a lot, but it's a core concept we've never abandoned, so he deserves credit for that too.